Mangaluru: A two-day Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) Workshop on Invention and Innovation was organised at St Aloysius Gonzaga School, in collaboration with the department of school education and literacy and DIET, Mangaluru, recently. Vedavathi Rao, the resource person of the workshop emphasised ATL labs’ significance in schools. Rajalaxmi, DDPI for Development, Dakshina Kannada shared a few aspects of how ATL can help in developing curiosity in learning and improving scientific skills.Sindhu and her team of students as resource persons from St Joseph’s Engineering College provided practical, hands-on opportunities to construct circuits and implement coding for developing functional models using the Arduino software. As many as 19 schools in and around DK participated in the workshop. TNN